Fabric disk with toilet soap thereon.



I. C. SCHEUF LER & I. I. OSBURN. FABRIC DISK WITH TOILET SOAP THEREON. APPLICATION FILED JAN. n, 1915.

139G383 Patented Oct. 10, 1916.

Inventors I To all whom it may concern En STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN c. scnnurmn AND JOHN J. osmrnn, or LOS mamas, camronma.

FABRIC DISK'WITH TOILET SOAP THEREON.

Be it known that we, JOHN C. SCHEUFLER and JOHN J. OSBURN, both citizens of the United States of America, both residing at Los Angeles, county of .Los Angeles, State of California,'have invented a certain new and useful Fabric Disk with Toilet Soap Thereon; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,'and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it -appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to fabric disks with toilet-soap thereon adapted for individual use.

It is usual in hotels and other public places to provide a cake of toilet-soap which is used by many difierent individuals and which in consequence becomes unclean and is often infected by germs or bacteria that spread disease.

The main object of this invention is the provision in a novel form of clean and sanitary toilet-soap adapted for individual use by patrons ofhotels and other public places.

Further objects of the invention are the provision of toilet-soap for individual use in a novel manner and form which makes it simple and inexpensive to manfacture, convenient and economical to use, highly satisfactory from the standpoint of cleanliness and hygiene, and practical and efi'ective for accomplishing its purposes.

With the above objects'in view the invention consists in producing a novel article of manufacture comprising a web, core, or disks, of inexpensive fabrics, such as paper, with toilet-soap thereon-the web being divisible into pieces having thereon suflicient toilet soap to meet the requirements of individual use for one occasion.

The invention will be understood by those skilled in the art from a careful consideration of the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a sectional view illustrating one form of apparatus for carrying out the process for producing the novel article of manufacture; Fig. 2 is a broken view of the web which carries the toilet-soap; and Fig. 3 shows views of one of the disks with layers Specificatitm of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1916.

' Application filed January 17, 1916. Serial No. 72,634.

both sides thereof a layer of toilet-soap 5. The body or core 4 is preferably -of such size and shape that it fits and may be rubbed between the hands of the user to remove therefrom the toilet soap 5 which is substantially sufiicient in quantity to meet the requirements of the user for one occasion. If more of the toilet-soap is required by the user, it can be had from another one of thebodies or cores 4:. The latter, as seen in Fig. 3, are preferably in the form of disks and are of substantially the size and shape of the palms of the hands. The fabric of the core or body 4 is preferably sufficiently pliable to make good suction contact with the hands in use; so that it does not slip or shoot away from the hands but can easily be reit may be made in the form of a chain of easily separable disks-see Fig. 2, or it may be made in'the form of separate pieces or disks of suitable size for single or individual use for one occasion.

In the practice of the invention on a large scale or for commercial purposes a web or strip 6 of fabric, preferably paper, is passed around the rollers 7 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, and it is wound on the roller 13. The rollers v8 and 10 are arranged in vats 14 and 15 which are placed in the heating tanks 16 and 17. The latter may be heated by any suitable -means such as by steam supplied through tanks 16 and 17. The upper interior portions of the tank 16 and 17 may be in communication through the pipe 19. and an exhaust pipe 20 may be in communication with the upper interior portion of the tank 17.

In passing under the roller 8 the strip 6 when of paper passes through a bath 21 of heated paraffin wax in the vat 14: which stifi'ens the paper and renders the paper tough and moisture proof. After leaving the vat 14 the strip 6 may be cooled to harden the wax by air blown through the piping 22 or by other "suitable, means. In passingnnder the roller 10 the waxed strip so'ap which'adheres to the wax strip. .After leaving the vat 15 the waxed strip with the toilet-soap thereon passes between .the adjustable spaced blades 24% which scrape oflt' the excess toilet-soap and insures even and uniform layers of the toilet-soap on the opposite sides-of the waxed strip. To prevent any. sticking together of the layers of toiletsoap when the strip is wound on the roller 13, powdered talc 25 or other suitable material is applied to the toilet-soap on one side of the strip 'by means of the mechanically operated sieve 26 or other suitable device.

we claim:

A new article of manufacture, consisting of a disk-form core of paper of substantially the size and shape of the palms of the hands andcoated with pa'raflin wax to stiffen and 20 prevent it from breaking or rolling up in use, and it, being sufiiciently pliable to make good suction contact with the hands so that the toilet soap can be rubbed off of the waxed paper and the latter then thrown away, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification at Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles, State of California,

this 8th day of January, A. D. 1916.

JOHN C. SCHEUFLER. JOHN J. OSBURN.

.of paper being sufliciently tough and stifi to 25 

